Glenaveril Or The Metamorphoses PDF Download

Excerpt from Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses, Vol. 1 of 2: A Poem in Six Books Canto I. Death. I. Born on the day when Lord Glenaveril died Was Lord Glenaveril; and the sire's last sigh, Breathing a premature farewell, replied To the son's first petitionary cry. On that dim tract which doth two worlds divide And yet unite, they passed each other by As strangers, tho' each bore the selfsame name; The one departing as the other came. II. Life and Death darkly jostled in the door That opes and shuts upon the days of man; The sire had lived scarce thirty years before The sireless son his orphaned life began. That fragile ark in its small bosom bore A race which else had perished, tho' its span Was shorter than a cubit's when one bell Rang birth and burial, welcome and farewell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.